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| | his / her / its / their / that / such / it (refers to sth preceding it) | HSK 5 |
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| | next / secondly | HSK 3 |
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| | To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to the successful execution of a job | |
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| | (adjective) other | |
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| | (idiom) to exaggerate; to overstate the facts | |
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| | gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside (idiom) | |
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| | (literary) (similar to 多麼｜多么, used before an adjective in exclamations) how (fortunate etc); so (many etc) | |
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| | other / (sth or sb) else / the rest | HSK 2 |
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| | rampant / very popular | |
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| | (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ... | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to experience it for oneself / to actually *be* there (as opposed to reading about it etc) | |
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| | to take pleasure in sth (idiom) | |
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| | to equivocate / to talk evasively (idiom) | |
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| | at most; at best | |
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| | to reap where one has not sown (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable | HSK 7-9 |
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| | words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb) | |
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| | the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them | HSK 4 |
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| | to do sth when least expected (idiom); to catch sb off guard | |
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| | among / in / included among these | HSK 2 |
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| | employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best | |
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| | extremely | HSK 4 |
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| | I'd like to hear the details | |
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| | many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose | |
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| | to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法｜孙子兵法) | |
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| | Turkey | |
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| | (idiom) just as expected | |
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| | especially; particularly | HSK 5 |
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| | to bear the brunt | |
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| | like father, like son (idiom) | |
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| | exactly what one would wish / to find one's niche | |
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| | cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame | |
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| | to be pestered beyond endurance | |
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| | cappuccino (loanword) | |
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| | not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom) / to take great pains / to be very patient | |
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| | to treat a matter with due consideration (idiom) | |
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| | the writing style mirrors the writer (idiom) | |
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| | to let things take their course (idiom) / to leave it to nature / laissez-faire | |
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| | employ one's talent to the fullest / everyone gives of their best / also written 人盡其才｜人尽其才 | |
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| | (idiom) appropriate / apt / just right | HSK 7-9 |
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| | in between / within that interval / in the meantime | HSK 7-9 |
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| | take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas. | |
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| | lit. their number cannot be counted (idiom); fig. countless / innumerable | |
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| | to satisfy rival demands (idiom) / to get the best of both worlds / to have it both ways / to have one's cake and eat it too | |
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| | to take the best / to absorb the essence | |
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| | to produce the opposite of the desired result | |
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| | each one does what he thinks is right (idiom) / each goes his own way | |
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| | unable to put up with (sth) any longer | |
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| | to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of career etc) | |
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| | to keep going resolutely despite knowing the task is impossible (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) as if nothing had happened; calm and composed; nonchalant | |
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| | to adapt to sb's taste / to fit sb's fancy | |
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| | to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom) | |
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| | secondly / the other (usu. of two) / the second | |
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| | to look favorably on sth / would be glad to see it happen | |
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| | (idiom) (originally, in Mencius) to cultivate one's moral character in solitude; (modern sense) to look after only one's own interests | |
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| | (saying) to know that it is so but not why it is so | |
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| | to pander to sb's whims | |
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| | to do the very opposite / to act in a diametrically opposite way | |
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| | not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name | HSK 7-9 |
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| | next / later / after that | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions | |
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| | (idiom) brilliant / extremely skillful / virtuosic | |
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| | to come at the right time / to be opportune | |
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| | gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside (idiom) | |
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| | to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint / fig. conspiring to defraud | |
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| | there is a reason for it / (of sth) not incidental | |
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| | besides / in addition / apart from that | |
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| | boundless joy | |
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| | (idiom) nothing special to look at / unprepossessing | |
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| | to eat one's own fruit (idiom); fig. suffering the consequences of one's own action / to reap what one has sown | |
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| | to travel to a place personally (idiom) | |
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| | to let nature take its course (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to remove the dross / to discard the dregs | |
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| | to know the first, but not know the second (idiom); only partial information | |
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| | looks impressive but is worthless (idiom) / not as good as it looks / a reputation with no substance | |
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| | to look favorably on sth / would be glad see it happen | |
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| | to follow closely behind sb or sth (idiom) | |
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| | to let things take their course / to take things as they come | |
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| | (idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Qian Qichen (1928-2017), former Chinese vice premier | |
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| | As the teacher, so the pupil. (idiom) | |
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| | to trace something to its source (idiom) | |
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| | to find amusement in one's own way / to enjoy oneself quietly | |
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| | used properly / used for its intended purpose / to put to good use / to serve its purpose | |
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| | to use sth to the full / to make the best use of everything | |
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| | (idiom) (of a married woman) to be unfaithful; to have extramarital affairs | |
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| | a tiny bit / very little / next to nothing (idiom) | |
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| | committing all manner of crimes / completely unscrupulous | |
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| | rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其｜与其 + {verb1} + 不如 + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}") | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to settle for second best / the next best thing | |
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| | boundless joy | |
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| | to address sb directly by name; to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating familiarity or overfamiliarity) | |
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| | unable to bear the pain (idiom) | |
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| | included / within that | |
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